Car Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trains are for meditation, for playing out long thought-processes, over and over; we trust them, perhaps because they have no choice but to go…

— Anonymous

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

— George Dow

“...moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of the principal…

— Robin Jarvis

“...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

— T. S. Eliot

“Throughout centuries, there are those who have risked new roads led by nothing except their own vision”

— Joel

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.

— Kara Ross

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and…

— Alan Huffman

“There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country…

— James Howard Kunstler

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. WHAT A TRAIN RIDE!

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

— Shervin Pishevar

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong…

— Virginia Woolf